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Assembly Bill A2426

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to emergency assistance for the replacement of property as a result of a bedbug infestation

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2019-A2426 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§131-a & 303, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9053
2017-2018: A171

2019-A2426 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to emergency assistance for the replacement of property as a result of a bedbug infestation; authorizes assistance in cases where the infestation cannot be controlled through the use of pesticides, treatments, fumigation, or any other method of extermination by an exterminator.

2019-A2426 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2426
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Social Services
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services  law, in relation to emergency
   assistance for the replacement of property as a  result  of  a  bedbug
   infestation
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5  of  section  131-a  of  the
 social services law, as amended by chapter 298 of the laws of 1971, such
 subdivision as renumbered by chapter 453 of the laws of 1990, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (a)  replacement  of  necessary  furniture and clothing for persons in
 need of public assistance who have suffered the loss of  such  items  as
 the  result of fire, flood or other like catastrophe OR AS THE RESULT OF
 A BEDBUG INFESTATION THAT CANNOT BE CONTROLLED THROUGH THE USE OF PESTI-
 CIDES, TREATMENTS, FUMIGATION, OR ANY OTHER METHOD OF  EXTERMINATION  BY
 AN EXTERMINATOR, provided provisions therefor cannot otherwise be made;
   §  2.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  1 of section 303 of the social
 services law, as amended by chapter 482 of the laws of 1975, is  amended
 to read as follows:
   (a) Replacement or repair, as the case may be, of clothing, furniture,
 food,  fuel  and  shelter;  (including  repairs  to homes owned by aged,
 blind, and  disabled  persons  and  temporary  shelter  until  necessary
 repairs  are completed or replacement shelter is secured), provided such
 clothing, furniture, food, fuel or shelter was lost or rendered  useless
 as  a  result  of  burglary, theft or vandalism, or as a result of fire,
 flood or other similar catastrophe which could not have  been  [forseen]
 FORESEEN by such person, and was not under his control, OR AS THE RESULT
 OF  A  BEDBUG  INFESTATION  THAT CANNOT BE CONTROLLED THROUGH THE USE OF
 PESTICIDES, TREATMENTS, FUMIGATION, OR ANY OTHER METHOD OF EXTERMINATION
 BY AN EXTERMINATOR. All such losses shall  have  been  reported  to  and
 appropriately  verified  by  local  officials before such replacement or
 repair;
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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